Senior Software Engineer at Optimal

Rotterdam · Full Time

We are a collection of engineers and scientists from Oxford, MIT and DeepMind, on a mission to grow safer, healthier food by deploying fully autonomous indoor farms outside every city on earth. Backed by world-leading deep technology funds, including Founders Fund.

Job Description

We are a collection of engineers and scientists from Oxford, MIT and DeepMind, on a mission to grow safer, healthier food by deploying fully autonomous indoor farms outside every city on earth.

Our team includes a professor of control engineering, a research scientist who helped reduce the cooling bill of a Google data centre by 40%, and a farmer who started as a vegetable picker 40 years ago and now runs one of the most advanced indoor farming operations in the world.

We are backed by world-leading deep technology VC funds, including Founders Fund, who have backed companies such as SpaceX, Palantir and Square from the very start. We are well capitalised for the future having raised one of the largest seed rounds ever in Europe.

YOUR ROLE

AI is an applied science. The faster we can run experiments, test ideas and iterate algorithmic approaches, the faster we can achieve our mission of deploying AI-controlled indoor farms outside every city on earth, and the faster the world gets access to safer, healthier food. You will be designing and developing the software machinery to allow us to iterate at maximum velocity towards this goal.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

- Design, develop, test and deploy high quality software, enabling us to rapidly run experiments, test ideas and iterate algorithmic approaches in simulation environments and within our large-scale, $50m indoor farms.
- Create the central nervous system of our machine, connecting AI agents to their sensors and actuators.
- Work closely with our machine learning and reinforcement learning.
- Ensure a high standard of software quality across the team by reviewing designs and code, and providing feedback and mentorship.
- Improve our software development toolset and processes.
- Continually learn and self-improve, helping others to do the same.

What We're Building

We are a collection of engineers and scientists from Oxford, MIT and DeepMind, on a mission to grow safer, healthier food by deploying fully autonomous indoor farms outside every city on earth.

Our team includes a professor of control engineering, a research scientist who helped reduce the cooling bill of a Google data centre by 40%, and a farmer who started as a vegetable picker 40 years ago and now runs one of the most advanced indoor farming operations in the world.

We are backed by world-leading deep technology VC funds, including Founders Fund, who have backed companies such as SpaceX, Palantir and Square from the very start. We are well capitalised for the future having raised one of the largest seed rounds ever in Europe.